specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Carvana
providerId: carvana
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
reconciled: true
source: >-
  https://api-developer.carvana.com/ (Azure APIM developer portal, anonymous catalog empty) and
  live header inspection of api.carvana.com and api.collective.carvana.com, 2026-09-05
tags:
  - Automotive
  - Partner API
  - Rate Limiting
limit_count: 0
description: >-
  Carvana publishes NO rate limits. The Partner API developer portal exposes zero APIs and zero
  products to an anonymous visitor, so no product-level throttling policy is readable; the Collective
  host answers 401 for every path; and the api.carvana.com gateway returns no RateLimit-*,
  X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header on any observed response. An honest zero: limits exist
  somewhere in Carvana's Azure APIM subscription policy, but nothing about them is published, so a
  partner cannot size an integration before signing.
notes: >-
  Supersedes a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep record that listed two speculative limit entries ("see partner
  Azure APIM subscription policy", "per AWS Data Exchange subscription terms"). Neither was a
  published number and the AWS Data Exchange entry rested on a listing that turns out to be
  third-party (see plans/carvana-plans-pricing.yml). Both removed.
sources:
  - https://api-developer.carvana.com/
  - https://api-developer.carvana.com/developer/apis?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
limits: []
headers_observed: []
headers_probed:
  - name: RateLimit-Limit
    seen: false
  - name: RateLimit-Remaining
    seen: false
  - name: RateLimit-Reset
    seen: false
  - name: X-RateLimit-Limit
    seen: false
  - name: Retry-After
    seen: false
evidence:
  - url: https://api-developer.carvana.com/developer/apis?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
    status: 200
    body: '{"value":[],"nextLink":null}'
    note: >-
      The developer portal's own management proxy answers anonymously and returns an empty API list,
      so no APIM product policy — the place an Azure-hosted rate limit would be declared — is
      readable without an approved partner account.
  - url: https://api.carvana.com/v1/vehicles
    status: 404
    note: No rate-limit headers present on the response.
  - url: https://api.collective.carvana.com/
    status: 401
    note: 'WWW-Authenticate: Basic. No rate-limit headers present on the challenge.'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com